Non-refillable bottle.



N0. 690,63IL I Patented Ian. 7, 1902.

0. E. BLAINE.

NON-REFILLABLE BBTTLE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

OTIS E. BLAINE, OF VICTOR, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LEXVIS M. HAMMOND, OF VICTOR, COLORADO.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 690,631, dated anuary 7, 1902. 7 Application filed March 30, 1901. Serial No. 53,741. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OTIS E. BLAINE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Victor, in the county of Teller and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles; and I do declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

non-refillable bottles, my object being to make it impossible or at least impracticable to refill bottles after the original contents have been removed.

Frauds are often practiced by refilling with inferior goods bottles having the wrappers, trade-marks, and names of firms or houses whose goods are known to be of superior quality, thus not only injuring the business of the said firms, but practicing a fraud on the public by palming off inferior goods under the name of the superior article. Hence my object is, as before intimated, to provide a bottle which when first opened must be so mu tilated that it cannot be refilled and reused without leaving evidence of the fraud.

My further object is to provide a bottle ofthis class which while serving the aforesaid purpose shall be of simple and economical construction; and to these ends the invention consists of the features, arrangements, and combinations hereinafter described and claimed, all of which will be fully understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which is illustrated an embodiment thereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical 1ongitudinal section, taken through the neck of my improved bottle, showing the safety-stop per partly inserted. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the stopper in place. Fig. 3 is a perspective view in detail of-the safety-stopper. The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the views.

Let the numeral 5 designate the neck of the bottle, which may be of ordinary or any suitable construction. The top 5' of this neck is My invention relates to improvements in provided with a safety-nozzle 6, formed integral with the neck and reduced in thickness or strength Where it joins the top of the neck, as shown at 6. The upper extremity of the part 6 of the safety-nozzle 6 is largest, and the part 6 tapers inwardly to its lower extremity, where it merges into an enlargement 6 formingan interior circumferential recess 01' groove A in the lower part of the safetynozzle. The safety-stopper -7, which cooperates with the safety-nozzle, is provided with a bell-shaped spring-retaining device 8. As shown in the drawings,this retaining device is formed from a single piece of flat spring metal made sufi'iciently thin to give it the required resiliency or yielding capacity. The extremities 8 of this metal piece are brought quite close together at the top and turned outwardly to give them increased holding capac- 7 0 ity. The body of the safety-stopper is preferably formed of some material that can be cast or otherwise constructed with the extremities 8 of the spring in'place,whereby the spring is securely fastened to the said stopper. Below 7; the stopper the spring extends outwardly in 'opposite directions and downward gradually to the lower extremity of the part 6 of the nozzle, where the spring is bent abruptly outward, as shown at 8, to engage horizontal interiorshouldersof the enlargementti. Atthis point the' spring is ben t back on itself and bowed upward slightly, as shown at 8. The stopper7 tapers to correspond with the taper of the inner wall of the nozzle and is preferably provided witha counterpart rib 7 ,which engages the inner wall of the nozzle part 6 when the parts 8 of the spring engage the recess A of the nozzle.

Preparatory to placing the safety-stopper in the nozzle an ordinary cork 9 is inserted in the top of the bottle-neck 5 in the usual manner. The spring-retaining device is then contracted by pressinginwardly on the horns 8 to allow the retaining device to enter the nozzle, after which the stopper, with the said device attached, is forced into the nozzle until the circumferential recess A is reached, when the horns of the spring move outwardly into said recess and lock the stopper against removal. When it is desired to open the bottle or pour out its contents, the entire nozzle is broken off at 6, after which the cork may be removed in the ordinary way; but the bottle is so mutilated that it cannot be refilled without showing that the nozzle has been broken off. The function of the rib 7 is to give the stopper such a small bearing-surface that if an attempt is made to tamper with the stopper for the purpose of removing it the latter will be pressed inwardly and the nozzle broken.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- In a non-refillable bottle, the combination I with a nozzle having an interior circumferential recess or groove in its lower portion, a stopper adapted to enter said nozzle, and a re- OTIS E. BLAINE.

Witnesses:

DORA G. SHIOK, MARY O. LAMB. 

